Would you use manipulatives? Why or why not? Which ones do you like?
I would love to use manipulatives, because it will help students solve the problem in a concrete way. And it will open another door for students who have different learning styles, especially the kinaesthetic learners- the learners who learn by doing. I like all of them, because they can be used for different strands and different questions. Although I am not good at every one of them, I guess I can learn by practice.
Linking cubes I love this one. It could be easily used for surface area and volume questions, and also it’s a good tool for students to find out how powerful exponents are. It’s also good for them to explore fractions and ratio. I would also like them to build things that they like to practice their geometry and spatial sense, for example: a transformer
Geoboards I am not good at this one, but it seems quite interesting. Students should use it to build the sense of surface area and fraction.
Pattern blocks Pattern blocks are excellent for fractions and for area questions. It should be quite helpful to build their spatial sense
Algebra tiles I love these red and blue tiles which can be used for positive and negative integers with zero principle
One G7/G8 manipulatives activity
Linkingcubes for exponents
The teacher can ask students to use base 2 to build exponent for 5 times, say: 2^1, 2^2, 2^3, 2^4, 2^5, using addition to represent multiplication in the middle, for example:
2^2= 2 times 2 cubes, means they need to grab another group of cubes to make it two times of the same thing, which is 4 cubes;
2^3=4^2= 4 times 4 cubes, means they need to grab another 3 groups of cubes to make it four times of the same thing, which is 16 cubes;
And so on, so that to let students realize the meaning of exponents and how powerful they are.
Would you use manipulatives? Why or why not? Which ones do you like?
I would love to use manipulatives, because it will help students solve the problem in a concrete way. And it will open another door for students who have different learning styles, especially the kinaesthetic learners- the learners who learn by doing. I like all of them, because they can be used for different strands and different questions. Although I am not good at every one of them, I guess I can learn by practice.
Linking cubes
I love this one. It could be easily used for surface area and volume questions, and also it’s a good tool for students to find out how powerful exponents are. It’s also good for them to explore fractions and ratio. I would also like them to build things that they like to practice their geometry and spatial sense, for example: a transformer
Geoboards
I am not good at this one, but it seems quite interesting. Students should use it to build the sense of surface area and fraction.
Pattern blocks
Pattern blocks are excellent for fractions and for area questions. It should be quite helpful to build their spatial sense
Algebra tiles
I love these red and blue tiles which can be used for positive and negative integers with zero principle
One G7/G8 manipulatives activity
Linking cubes for exponents
The teacher can ask students to use base 2 to build exponent for 5 times, say: 2^1, 2^2, 2^3, 2^4, 2^5, using addition to represent multiplication in the middle, for example:
2^2= 2 times 2 cubes, means they need to grab another group of cubes to make it two times of the same thing, which is 4 cubes;
2^3=4^2= 4 times 4 cubes, means they need to grab another 3 groups of cubes to make it four times of the same thing, which is 16 cubes;
And so on, so that to let students realize the meaning of exponents and how powerful they are.